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Nutri-CAP: Nutrition for Children, Adolescent Girls, and Pregnant Women in Slums of Dhaka City
Led by International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh · Updated on 2024-10-30
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Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
143 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
I
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Lead Sponsor
G
Global Affairs Canada
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
The objective of the research project is to establish an evidence-based sustainable nutrition service delivery platform for optimizing pregnancy weight gain, increasing dietary diversity of adolescent girls, and ensuring proper physical growth of under 2 children. Hypothesis 1. Pregnant Women: Intensive nutrition and WASH counseling, iron-folate, calcium supplementation during pregnancy, can improve gestational weight gain and improve hemoglobin status in pregnant women in a slum of Dhaka city 2. Adolescent girl: Iron and zinc supplementation and nutrition counseling on dietary diversity could improve nutritional status and dietary diversity score in adolescent girls of slums in Dhaka 3. Children \<2 years: Counselling on IYCF, growth monitoring, and promotion, ensuring six-monthly vitamin A supplementation, counseling on WASH, treatment of acute malnutrition, and daily 1 egg supplementation for 3 months for severely stunted children can improve the nutritional status of children 4. Counselling to improve Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) practice: WASH intervention can improve EED biomarkers
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Nutri-CAP: Nutrition for Children, Adolescent Girls, and Pregnant Women in Slums of Dhaka City
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Pregnant women aged 18-39 years
- Pregnant women before 16 weeks of gestation
- Pregnant women with BMI between 15 and 24.99 kg/m2 at enrollment
- Pregnant women planning to stay in the study area until delivery
- Pregnant women willing to participate
- Pregnant women not currently enrolled in any nutrition program
- Adolescent girls aged 11-19 years
- Adolescent girls willing to participate
- Adolescent girls not involved in any nutrition program
- Adolescent girls planning to stay in the study area for the next 2 years
- Children aged 0-24 months
- Youngest child in the household
- Caregivers planning to stay in the study area until the child is at least 2 years old
- Children not currently enrolled in any nutrition program
You will not qualify if you...
- Pregnant women unwilling to give consent
- Pregnant women planning to move out of the study area during the study
- Pregnant women planning to deliver elsewhere (village or parents' house)
- Pregnant women with chronic diseases that could affect study participation
- Pregnant women who are extremely obese
- Pregnant women involved in any nutrition program currently
- Adolescent girls unwilling to give assent or consent
- Adolescent girls planning to move out of the study area during the study
- Adolescent girls involved in any nutrition program currently
- Children whose caregivers are unwilling to give consent
- Children planning to move out of the study area during the study
- Children with any congenital anomaly
- Children involved in any nutrition program currently
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b)
Dhaka, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh, 1212
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
M
Mustafa Mahfuz, MBBS, MPH, PhD
CONTACT
F
Fahmida Farzana, MSc, MPH
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
PREVENTION
Number of Arms
2
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